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Well, it's been another month. It's amazing how time and life both fly like this, but they're not slowing down for anyone.

I've got so many awesome song titles and EP titles. If only I had a band. Or raw musical talent.

I'm a little burnt out right now, mostly due to a number of projects I'm working on right now, both for and eventually-for school and Geography. I'm finding it harder to get to bed at anythign resembling a reasonable hour, so my productivity has taken a hit, but fortunately, there are still great things on the near horizon. Unfortunately, it isn't much I can talk extensively about right now. But what I will share right here is tangentially related.

Thom Anderson's slyly-titled 2003 documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself, used almost exclusively footage from a barrage of films made over the past one hundred years. I just discovered it recently, and I'm completely amazed at how much work and thought went into this 170-minute skewering of ways filmmakers and audiences take his hometown of Los Angeles for granted. It's available on Youtube, broken down into twelve 14-minute segments. Anderson's highly opinionated, endlessly quotable, get-off-my-lawn narrative charm pervades it, and while I found him hard to agree with a lot of the time, I had nothing but admiration for this post-modern love letter to the City of Angels. Highly worth a few of your hours. Video linked via the still image below.



In news I am excited to share, The Casual Geographer will be hitting the "air" on Tuesday at 9am Pacific Time with our first episode of the Morning Show on KBeach Radio. We'll be waxing poetic about all thing geographic, and it should be a good time. Hope you can listen in and call in once I have the studio number (and figure out how to run the board in there. Shouldn't be too hard).

Anyway, hope you're all having great weekend(s). Keep the faith and keep in touch.